ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY 



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in this way the 

 on one another 

 twilled mat is 

 ments being sti 

 then finished off 

 example here s 

 Zufii pueblo, w 

 stripped leaves 

 travs are made. 



ends of the warp and of the weft are bent backward 



and forced under the texture. In one example a 



finished out with wicker weaving, both sets of ele- 



•aightened out for warp. (See fig. 12.) The margin is 



as if the whole mass had been in wicker weaving. The 



hown was made recently by an Indian woman in the 



estern New Mexico. (See fig. <;i.) The material is 



of yucca, from which coarse mats, l)asket bowls, and 



The mat is woven square and a lioop of wood is pro- 



FlG. 61. 



WEFT AXD WARP FASTENED DOWN WITH TWINE. 



(<(, front; '/, liaek.) 

 Cat. No. 21.MSK. r.S.N.M. 



vided for the border. The mat is forced down into it, the ends of the 

 warp and w eft cut off about an inch above the hoop. They are then 

 bent down on the outside in groups of fours and held in place with 

 one row of twined weaving, as shown in the accompanying drawing, 

 giving both front and back view. The basket is the gift of Mr. G. B. 

 Raggett. Diameter, 11 inches. Cat. No. 2151:88, U.S.N.M. 



In the simplest forms of wicker work the ends of the warp are all 

 cut off in uniform lengths and each bent down by the side of the next 

 warp, or behind one warp and down beside the second warp, or is 

 woven behind and in front of the other warp stems with greater or 



